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A public hearing on the city real-estate tax rate and a discussion of green initiatives highlight Monday night’s Waynesboro City Council meeting. The public hearing will give citizens the chance to offer input on the city’s real-estate tax rate for 2009-2010. The rate is currently at 70 cents per $100 assessed value. A coalition including…
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Join me for lunch Friday in front of the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building in Downtown Waynesboro – otherwise I’ll have mine out there all by my lonesome, which if the weather holds up the way it’s supposed to will only be so bad. I’m aiming to get folks in Waynesboro together for lunch and…
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Four DuPont Community Credit Union employees were promoted recently to management positions, including: retail services specialist, compliance officer, credit manager, and systems implementation specialist.
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A pilot project getting going in Waynesboro this week could help the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and area food pantries get needed food items to distribute to local families hit hard by the economic downturn. “I’m anxious to tell you your first skid is ready,” city recycling coordinator Lesa Osteen told Food Bank representatives…
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There is rumblin’ on Main Street in Downtown Waynesboro, and the source of the reverberation is over 150 American-made muscle cars. Saturday, May 16, Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. hosts the fourth annual Main Street Muscle Car Show from 1-5 p.m. The stunning sight of the cars, the sounds of Southern rock by No Boundaries, the…
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Just to be clear, this isn’t a rumor. City budget director Pat Nicosia is getting ready to announce her bid for the treasurer post possibly as early as this week. How I know this is I signed her ballot-access petition on Tuesday.
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Story by Chris Graham Pete VandenBout admits to being a “little nervous” when he showed up to play baseball in Waynesboro a couple of years ago, not so much because of the baseball, but because he didn’t know the first thing about the family that was going to put him up for the summer. “Right…
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Here it is – your complete 2009 Waynesboro Generals home schedule.
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Elizabeth Barnes is “wiped out.” “We priced it right, too,” said Barnes, talking about her 325 Lee Drive, Waynesboro, home, that she put on the market in July 2008 at a list price of $275,000, $40,000 below what she was going to list it at a year earlier when she had flirted with the idea…
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I’m reading an article in Time magazine a few weeks back, and there’s a report on how a few new local community banks seem to be doing well in spite of what would seem to be the conventional wisdom on banks and business across the board.
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